| | | Long Beach Opens Its first Cidery, Ficklewood Ciderworks | The newest addition to the East Village, formerly the Department of Motor Vehicles in Long Beach during the 1930s and '40s, is Ficklewood Ciderworks, featuring a diverse collection of ciders brought together by locally inspired releases fro... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | | | Music Pick: Skullcrack | In a recent interview with Death By Stereo’s Efrem Schulz, the frontman was asked to highlight some contemporary punk rock bands in Orange County that are making some impressive noises, and the first name he came up with was Skullcrack. L... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Jay Campbell Traverse a Thousand Years of Music in a Dramatic Concert | Patricia Kopatchinskaja is one of the world’s great violinists — bold and daring while other musicians are cautious and bound by tradition — but she had never performed in Los Angeles until April 2019, when she swept through town for ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | A Review of the Oscars’ Best Shorts Nominees (and Where You Can See Them) | On Oscar day, it’s not unusual for a movie critic to receive several (slightly frantic) text messages from friends seeking advice on the office awards pool: “What will win Best Live-Action Short? Best Short Doc? Best Animation Short? He... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | The Last Ship’s Long Voyage to the L.A. Stage | The Last Ship has indeed had a long journey since it first premiered on Broadway in 2014. Its tumultuous course has been steered into calmer waters by a new captain, director Lorne Campbell, who also wrote the revised book. The original mus... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Dance Pick: Heidi Duckler Dance: One Leg at a Time | On the theory that the arts — and perhaps dance and movement especially — are not only engaging, uplifting and inspirational, but also therapeutic, Heidi Duckler Dance often stages work activating locations and communities outside the c... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | Party Pick: Celebrate Queen of Angels Drag Shop’s New Downtown Digs | Celebrating the wonderful world of local drag at its fabulous downtown locale for nearly 2 years, Queen of Angels L.A. is the city’s only brick-and-mortar retail queendom of its kind. Now it’s growing and re-launching at a new location ... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | | | | | State Legislators Target Pot Taxes With AB 1948 | As the state’s legal cannabis industry continues to float on top of an underground market three times its size, the debate has again kicked off around lowering California’s pot taxes to make legal marijuana more competitive with its rea... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| | Behind the Scenes at L.A. Weekly’s CBD Saturday Farmers Market | The first L.A. Weekly and Green Entrepreneur CBD Farmers Market on Saturday, January 11, welcomed 3,000 cannabis enthusiasts to Academy LA in Hollywood, California. Consumers, as well as business owners, enjoyed food, smokable hemp, yoga, m... | READ MORE ➝ |
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| EVENTS | | | | Creative Communal Presents Makers Market Pop-Up | Come hang with us on Saturday, February 22, 2020, from 5:30-9 p.m. Fifteen-plus local makers, raffles all night, live music, bomb brews, and good grub from Anarchy Seafood. Free to attend, and applications are open at creativecommunal.com.... | LEARN MORE ➝ |
| | Academy Awards Viewing at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills | Admission is $10 to watch the awards on the big screen. Entire entry fee refunded with a $10 or more purchase in concessions. Doors open for the pre-show at 3pm. Buy tickets here: fineartstheatrebh.com.... | LEARN MORE ➝ |
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